This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. What do the Brahmins tell Siddhartha is the great spiritual purpose?

A) to find inner peace

B) to find enlightenment

C) to find emptiness

D) to find the inner Self

2. Why does the young Siddhartha doubt the teachings of the Brahmins?

A) The Brahmins are all phonies.

B) The Brahmins aren’t at peace.

C) The Brahmins are greedy and worldly.

D) The Brahmins are too intellectual.

3. When Siddhartha announces that he is leaving to search for greater spiritual understanding, his father relents for what reason?

A) Siddhartha is impossible to discipline.

B) Siddhartha has already left him in spirit.

C) Siddhartha will be financially successful.

D) Siddhartha may find a wife out in the world.

4. What is Siddhartha’s goal in living with the Samana ascetics? (short answer)

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